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Enacted or done by Parliament; as, a parliamentary act. Sir M. Hale.

An idea; a notion. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain. Sir M. Hale.

Peripatetic. [R.] Hales.

ny one of a series of compounds having both phenol and aldehyde properties. -- Phenol phthalein. See under Phthalein.

A group of extinct carnivorous whales. Their teeth had compressed and serrated crowns. It includes Squalodon and allied genera.

Pertaining to, or designating, a dibasic acid obtained by the oxidation of naphthalene and allied substances. Phthalic acid (Chem.), a white crystalline substance, C6H4.(CO2H)2, analogous to benzoic acid, and employed in the brilliant dyestuffs called the phthaleins.

A colorless crystalline substance obtained by reduction from phthaleïn, into which it is easily converted by oxidation; hence, any one of the series of which phthalin proper is the type.

The genus that includes the sperm whale.

s to some of the scales. Called also mountain black snake. (b) The pine snake. -- Pilot whale. (Zoöl.) Same as Blackfish, 1.

A small whale.

ee angular points are poles of the sides of a given triangle. See 4th Pole, 2. -- Polar whale (Zoöl.), the right whale, or bowhead. See Whale.

Baked like potter's lay; -- applied to clay shales that have been converted by heat into a substance resembling porcelain.

A semivitrified clay or shale, somewhat resembling jasper; -- called also porcelain jasper.

ispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects. Sir M. Hale.

; situation. [Obs.] Milton. His [man's] noblest posture and station in this world. Sir M. Hale.

To determine (something) beforehand. Sir M. Hale.

To affirm something of another thing; to make an affirmation. Sir M. Hale.

re or discourse read in public or to a select company. "The prelections of Faber." Sir M. Hale.

To begin; to initiate. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.